Cloud DevOps Platform Engineer

Operating within the Platform function alongside Security, Architecture and Developer Experience teams, you'll be heavily involved with all our technical infrastructure, from designing, through build and the ongoing operation of a platform running in Kubernetes on AWS.

Key Responsibilities:

• Build and maintain a Kubernetes on AWS platform used by 150+ engineers
• Advocate good practices and principals throughout the engineering function
• Standardise deployment and usage of cloud resources to ease technology adoption and comply with security controls
• Work with stakeholders, such as security, to understand the requirements of the platform

Required qualifications, capabilities and skills:

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and advanced applied experience
• Proven track record of building and managing continual automation / deployment / delivery
• Proficiency running infrastructure on cloud platforms, such as AWS and GCP, appreciation for their failure modes, and a good understanding of network concepts and fundamentals
• Expertise in managing and maintaining Kubernetes clusters in production
• Excellent knowledge on observability tooling and best practices
• Experience working within or alongside engineering teams to deliver

Preferred qualifications, capabilities and skills:

• Systems and database experience, with an understanding of the challenges involved in designing and building distributed/microservice environments
• Knowledge or experience of scalable technologies such as Kafka
• A passion for learning new things and experimenting with new technologies
• Strong in AWS and/or Kubernetes (Azure, GCP not applicable – we need the direct experience of